Change and Transition “But when she met my hate with such compassion, I couldn’t fight back.” As a teenager Arno Michaelis found relief from a dysfunctional family with an addiction to adrenaline. “I started out bullying on the school bus,” says Michaelis. “I got thrills from other kids fearing me. I would fight in the schoolyard and on the streets.” By middle school, Michaelis was ramping up his antisocial behavior to get an even bigger rush, moving to vandalism and breaking and entering. Before long he had formed a white supremacist gang and was frontman for a white-power metal band. Yet, his ideology collapsed when those he hated met him with love. Article: An Ex-Neo-Nazi’s Journey to Buddhism